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previously on the blog - Paolo, 'run' was figurative - I walk for miles, but running? joggy bottoms? no way! and I huvnae seen Scotch nor even his pal Senga at all.
No, I'm sitting at the airport waiting to pick up my son and wasting £1 on computer access to while away the time.

previously on GIO....Train night.

Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to put that Chris de Burgh nonsense on the show???

#1 I couldn't imagine you in joggy bottoms either, gaie - you're far too classy for that. But that £1 internet access thingy - I bet it's just for 10 minutes (it was when I was last at an airport, which was not so many days ago). Total rip off. If it's a regular occurrence, you could do worse than invest in one of Mr Job's iPhones or iPads.

#2 took me right back to Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show!!

#2

You're quite right, Adam. With all these Ö÷²¥´óÐã staff cuts the only one I'd keep on would be Iain Anderson.

Good to see this theme has got the bloggers talking

#2 / #5 That song was totally over the top. CdB has his moments - I just don't know if he's taking the mickey or being earnest in some of his more "deep" songs. I'm not enough of a fan to give it any more consideration.

#5 And yet you choose to comment here? Eric, you're as much of a mystery as Chris is.

Has made my search for all things musically new a trifle easier.

Available by download from that bastion of undiscovered talent CD Baby ...

'MechANIcal Heart' ~~ Nostalghia


'I am Robot Hear me Glitch' ~~ Nostalghia


'Cool for Chaos' ~~ Nostalghia


undiscovered till now ... thanks Steve J ... you made a difference!

I realise I am in the minority of probably one or two here but I find downloading the most unsatisfying of things. It really is like buying a copy of a cd, or tapes as it used to be down the Barras. You dont actually get anything, the quality is appaling, it is as expensive most of the time as buying the real lp or CD. It is why the new generation know next to nothing of albums and it wasnt home taping that was killing music....

I downloaded the last Tift Merrit CD because I was in the States when it came out and because of this it is the album of hers I know least.

Tift Merritt - Mixtape

I downloaded this because I was very drunk and had had a very good night to which it formed a good part of the soundtrack

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

Most of my downloads fall into the "after midnight" timescale.

I just don't get the theme though. Having just checked my (now working) macbook itunes (Steve didn't make other brand names available from high street stores), I have purchased 4.3 days worth of songs over the past couple of years. Where do I start?

Having shut my eyes and scrolled down the songs then clicked on one tune, I find I have:

Grounds for divorce - Elbow




DC

#9 I forgot to say that I have no doubt he was a very nice man and a sad loss to his family and frends. I loved this speech of his which I came across a few years. Worth taking the time to listen through:

A few suggestions:

Naby I'm a fool - Melody Gardot (which was free, and introduced me to this exciting talent)
We'll meet along the way - Hem (the CD was only available on import, at a silly price)
This land is your land - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (downloaded after watching a George Clooney film, when the rest of the sountrack was less interesting)
In Rodanthe - Emmylou Harris (ditto, except the leads were Diane Lane and Richard Gere)
Relator - Pete Yorn/Scarlett Johannsen (I first heard it on GIO)
Saving grace - Everlast (a TV theme song I could only find as an mp3)
They shoot horses don't they - Racing Cars

Joe
Linlithgow

Oops - apologies for typo - Baby I'm a fool!

J
L

#3 mary-doll, you're way too kind, you should see me in my weekend clothes - joggy bottoms would très chic in comparison.

Anyway, a great theme tomorrow, though clearly I'm in a minority of one on that. Nothing new there then.

Just before I left the lab for good last year, I was chatting with one of the students and said I'd have to reorganise my listening since I'd no longer have hours in the car for that. Seems he ran off in great glee, having solved the terrible question of what the lab were to buy me for a leaving gift. I was presented with my very first iPod the next week - and it didn't work. So it was replaced and for a person who's not interested in gadgets I simply love, love LOVE my iPod. I look out the window every morning in hopes of fine weather so I can walk to work. On go the headphones, I hit shuffle and then there's that wee bit of excitement wondering what will come on. There are songs that make my heart skip when they come on and these are the ones I'll list as clearly there's nothing I don't like on my beloved iPod, that would be silly.
I also like being able to download single tracks - I can't afford to buy lots of albums, but hey, who notices a few 79pences here and there - and having lots of odd tracks makes it more interesting not knowing what's on next.
I am just a big wean and this is my very favourite toy.

So for lab 300, who gave me such a great present

these are the ones that put a spring in my step

All We Make is Entertainment - The Manic Street Preachers
Uprising - The Muse
Wheels - Foo Fighters
Welcome to Your Wedding Day - Airborne Toxic Event
Waking Up Sideways - Kassidy
Last Kiss - Joe Bonamassa
Grace - The View
Blue Tarp Blues - Sonny Landreth
Candlelight Sonata in F Major - Frankie Miller
Start to Roll - The Rudiments

#9 anybody been to Kelvingrove yet to the AC/DC exhibition?

#10 I have that too and it's another great song

caption compo............

'wit's that???'

just make up a bundle o' 'cash' using one o' they post office rubber bands.that should be enough to see off the weekend.

i don't have one o' they things in the fotae so this is a request to play just one song not downloaded on wan o' they gadgies but downloaded the old fashioned way on a philips reel to reel tape recorder from the wireless on a sunday afternoon.....mibbe its an old song but there will be nothing better played......ya betcha.....from the randomiser in my memory cells...shuffle it on.

'concrete and clay'......................unit 4 plus 2

cheers frae the dale

#9 @ ya n mc lean..................

whats also worrying is they know nothing about history....history to the youth generation stretches back to the last episode of hollyoaks.....seriously.
its quite dangerous.

cheers frae the dale

I dont think I've downloaded anything new for about 4 years! About 95% of my use of my aged MP3 machine thingy is to listen to radio.

I did download this though and am glad I did as when I tried to buy a copy of the CD it's from via t'interweb it just never arrived! Great song...wish BB etc could find it and play it:

'Wishful Thinking' - The Ditty Bops

#14 Gaie, I too love my ipod (a 125 GB Classic which is only 1/3 full) and my recently purchased (as in last week) headphones. I particularly enjoy the Genius function whereby I can select a song and 25 (up to 100 on the macbook) unexpected songs, all of which I will enjoy, follow on. This makes for a most enjoyable evening.

I still don't get the theme though

DC

You have to make do with mp3s if you can't find the original, like this one.

- Paul Williams

The Daughter keeps promising to download some music onto my Black Berry...which is fine as long as she doesnt include Bieber and early (or any) Britney (she thinks it's OK if she says it 'old school'). So I'll get lots of hippety-hop...which is fine by me, and probably a lot more I'll like...she's playing Raphael Saadiq just now for instance! Looking forward to it...as long as I don't have to go through all the rigmarole of doing the actual downloading or whatever...I just can't be bothered!

I fondly remember my second ever computer being a Macintosh Performa with a back then massive 500 mb hard drive and an amazing 16 mb ram... nothing these days but it was cream of the crop back when my parents bought it. Always used to love my Macintosh but sadly due to the ever enchroaching Microsoft Windows platform had to move over to the a windows pc sad to see one of the men who has perhaps had the largest impact on personal computing in the late 20th and early 21st century.

With that being said my favourited downloads would be as follows.

New Slang - The Shins
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
In the Waiting Line - Simple Things
Knights of Cydonia - Muse

Before I had ever heard of downloading my son shouted up the stairs to me 'dad name a song you like that you've not got on CD'. 'Oh I dunno ' says I ' off the top of my head 'It'll shine when it shines by the ozark mountain daredevils'. A few minutes later he came up the stairs with a CD and says play it. I was gobsmacked.
'How the hell did you do that'. He had discovered Napster* and that was it. The world just seemed to stop and I don't think I got to bed that night.

I have downloaded many songs thats been suggested on here and the great thing about Mr Jobs music store is you can preview about 90 secs of a song before you buy.

My most recent purchase was just yesterda when I bought Ben Howards new album. From it I would like to hear

*other illegal file sharing sites were available

#15 AC/DC exhibition is well worth a visit. It's awesome ☺

Most of my downloads recently have been as a result of shouts on the blog. In particular, I really like:

The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

Awesome? Like, for real?

Totally dude ☺

# 9 - Totally agree Norrie, really miss going in to a decent record shop for a good old browse, like many others on this blog I'm sure.
As I'm a big american country fan I can appreciate how costly it can be trying to get hold of albums that are not generally released here, still don't see much Rascal Flatts or Toby Keith in the 2 for a tenner section of probably the only high st retailer left, but still looking through online shops just doesn't do it for me.
I have never owned any of Mr Jobs products personally but do have an old mp3 player I used to use when travelling around working.
Kids have I-pods and they work very well for how they look at music now.
Guess the only song I have, which my daughter tracked down for me after hearing the Jerrod Niemann(country) version is

Lover (You don't treat me no good no more) / Sonia Dada



Either one will do though as they're both excellent.

This brings me to another point already made

#17 - d_k Great point about the whole culture thing.
Remember my daughters looking through some of our old vinyl stuff recently and absolutely slaughtering us about some of the more dubious 80s examples.
Not sure anyone will flick through computer files in the future......

Think Mr Jackson can say it better than me;

I Still Like Bologna - Alan Jackson



That's enough of me blabbin the noo,
Al.

I first started using Macs as a student - so really before I'd used anything else to any great extent - to work on publications & publicity for the ed.ac.uk Student Association.

I continued to use them for preference during my (design-based) postgrad as the relatively clunky PCs started invading and expanding in the Napier computer labs.

When I went freelance as a web designer in the mid-90s (yes, right back at the start), there was only one platform I was going to choose, as very little effective design software was available for anything else, and I've had Macs in the house ever since. Counting up yesterday, I worked out we have 10 Apple computers (5 Macs, 2 iPads, 1 iPhone and 2 AppleTVs), 4 Linux (one of which is my work laptop) and 0 Windows. And perhaps 5 non-iOS iPods of various sizes.

I bought my 1st iPod - a huuuuuuuge 15GB - when visiting a friend in Texas in 2003. I was going to buy proper cowboy boots, but once I'd laid my hands on an iPod, there was no competition. In the year that followed, I bought more music (on CD - this being before the iTunes store) than I had in the previous 10 put together.

One of the joys of listening to GiO is finding new music, and buying it. Thanks to this, I've bought (amongst others):
* The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - The Intro and the Outro
* The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
* Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
* The Wailin' Jennies - Just One Voice
* Hayseed Dixie
and many more

I now have 8114 tracks on my iTunes, which thanks to AirPlay, I can send to pretty much any room in the house, either in unison (party mode), or different tracks to each one.

Thanks to the info from my iTunes database (analysed via last.fm), I realised just how much I liked the small number of Billy Bragg songs I had, so went out and bought a whole load more over the years - as my requests to GiO show, I'm now a *huge* Bragg fan.

So yes, the Apple Universe has profoundly changed my life, and my music listening in particular.

As perhaps the summary of it, can we please have the track that I've played most often (if only because it was one of the very first on my 1st iPod), and the lyrics are very appropriate for remembering Steve:
* Clannad & Bono - In a Lifetime

Frank Zappa came up with a business model for filesharing in 1989; years before the digital revolution began.

Was Steve Jobs a fan?

#30

Dunno - but he was a huge fan of The Beatles.

I'm not sure if it's ironic or fitting that the long running dispute between Apple Computers and Apple Records was put to bed so shortly before his passing.

When you listen to Steve's Stanford University speech it's not hard to figure out that it's roots and inspiration lay in John Lennon's great philosophical lyrics from All You Need Is Love.

Although I haven't had the need to download anything by Beatles from ichoons,it would be nevertheless fitting to play that song as a recognition of his inspiration, something you were eventually able to download before he left this mortal coil.

All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

More to follow....

regardez youse

henri

I got my iPod Classic as a hand me up from my son when he upgraded to iTouch.
Its fantastic.
However, I dont have any music on it at all. Instead I use it for the wonderful world of podcasts (mainly football related with a few film review and media programmes thrown in). I also subscribe to Top Gear which I watch on the way to work, so maybe the Top Gear theme tune:

Jessica - The Allman Brothers

I know B & B are bigs fans of Jeremy and the boys so should be a shoo-in.



Where's Scotch??? Still no recovered fae yon kipper?

Good shout but it needs to be the full track and not the truncated single version.

GAVE MY LOVE AN APPLE from HEAVY PETTING by DR STRANGELY STRANGE

#29 cap'n
Steve must have had you on speed dial

BIG APPLE BLUES by SLADE

#32 is that aw you use yer ipod fur?

Yer missin oot..........